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...An estimated $30bn in fire liabilities forced Pacific Gas & Electric — California’s biggest utility — to file for bankruptcy protection in 2019....
...Investors in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) will receive regular dividend income, she explained, whereas those in IVVM ad IVVB will not....
...The world’s largest asset manager has come under fire from both sides of the climate change debate....
...The strategy could be particularly important for the adenovirus vector vaccines from AstraZeneca and J&J, where the genetic code of Sars-Cov-2’s spike protein is carried in an inactivated cold virus....
...We settle into our chairs and fire up our powerful cigars. The plan is to smoke and talk, and then get some takeaway sandwiches and chomp and chew the fat some more....
...Several are more traditional shots, like the jab under development at GSK and Sanofi, that were leapfrogged by 2020’s breakthrough mRNA jabs....
...MPs on how to fire up the economy....
...US stock futures recovered some of their earlier losses following the update, leaving S&P 500 futures down 0.9 per cent....
...(Korea Times) Tesco under fire for lack of action on obesity crisis (FT)...
...The mass-market chain, which has more than 800 stores and employs about 90,000 people, on Friday joined its upscale peer Neiman Marcus, clothing company J Crew and footwear brand Aldo in seeking court protection...
...Another wildfire season is ablaze, with more than 20 active incidents reported by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection....
...Maybe we just don’t need J Crew any more....
...Another 30 nationally known US retail companies could file for bankruptcy protection this year, predicted industry consultant Jan Rogers Kniffen....
...Credit investors are now faced with questions of how to balance obvious sector challenges with investor protections in their securitisation structures....
...In the US, PayPal and Square have risen 33 per cent and 26 per cent respectively, whereas the S&P 500 is still down by a tenth....
...“J&J were non-plussed,” one surgeon present at the conference told City Insider. “Namal makes smart acquisitions but he also does ones that screw the competition.”...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 22, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...PG&E has said it will enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on or about January 29 as the company faces liabilities as evidence has emerged of its role in the Camp fire in northern California last year,...
...Trump hasn't managed to dislodge apparent insouciance about who an incoming President might be next time, and what s/he might or might not decide to do with the swap lines in a crisis, even regardless of...
...Shareholders of Campbell Soup will next week decide if they will vote in favour of five board candidates proposed by Dan Loeb’s Third Point....
...Wm Morrison, J Sainsbury and Tesco all reported year-on-year rises in grocery sales, especially in the week before Christmas....
...At second-quarter results last month Brian Duperreault, chief executive, said the slimmed-down company no longer “meet[s] the hurdles” for the Sifi designation, after “dramatic” changes to its risk profile...
...“By the time your portfolio is giving off smoke, there’s likely a fire burning below.”...
...She hopes senior environment officials meeting in Singapore later in the year will “formalise the adoption of coastal and marine biodiversity protection as a priority for the centre”....
...Equifax has also come under fire for its choice of new chairman....
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